Waters
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Waters the group · Waters the idea
Āpaḥ · the rivers · Āpas
in the texts
Rigveda
Personified divine Waters, containing ambrosia and medicine, invoked for purification and protection.
O Waters, carry away from me whatever evil there is in me, whether I have committed treachery, or cursed, or spoken falsehood.
O Waters, provide medicine and protection for my body, that I may long see the sun.
Soma has told me that within the waters are all medicines, and Agni who is universally beneficent, and the waters who are universally healing.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The personified Waters, addressed directly as nourishing mothers and as agents of healing.
O Waters, do not shake out of us our mental power, do not shake out the brahman.
Do not injure our mental power, do not injure our consecration, do not injure our austerity.
Waters, drive out the worm;